daubery

Alternative forms

daubry

Etymology

From daub +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːbəɹi/

Noun

daubery (countable and uncountable, plural dauberies)

A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.
- 1907, Lucien Marcus Underwood, The progress of our knowledge of the Flora of North America:
  No one thought seriously of botany; it was a sort of fringe on the educational garment, pretty enough, but only adapted to girls to be taken as an accomplishment and classed with decorative daubery and other fancy work.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “daubery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Beaudry